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How to Take Your Training Outside
You might have the most amazing home gym, but sometimes nothing beats taking your training outside to make the most of the warmer summer weather. Wondering how you can get the most from your session without your usual set up? Well, functional training is your best friend. For those of you who have serious gains and weight lifting PBs to be -
Fluid Rowers Vs Air Rowers
For those of you who like to get your heart rate up quickly and effectively to tear through body fat and build endurance, using a machine that consistently challenges you throughout every cardio session is key. Treadmills, exercise bikes, and cross trainers are all popular choices when you’re after that intense workout – but what about rowing machines? Rowing is an -
3 Signs Something’s Not Right with Your Fitness Programme
If you're feeling as though your training regime is a little 'off' at the moment, there's a good chance it is, but what are the signs you need to look out for? Here are three key indicators that you should consider... 1 | YOU’RE BORED If the thought of your impending workout makes you want to yawn - or worse - fills -
5 Easy Ways to Have a Healthier Summer
Summer is looming and with the weather hotting up recently, it’s got us all thinking about BBQs, summer holidays, and refreshing drinks in the pub garden. While summer of course has its unhealthy luxuries, such as stacks of ice cream and flowing cocktails, the warmer season actually brings countless opportunities to make a healthy choice – and not ones that -
Fitness Jargon Buster
Do you know your HIIT from your DOMS? Your aerobic from your anaerobic? With new training methods and workout crazes being invented all the time, it can be hard to keep up with it all. We thought we’d pull together all the fitness-related terminology we could think of and set it out in one handy place, here on the blog. -
7 Ways to Boost Your Fitness
It’s common to hit a wall when it comes to training, and even the best of the best struggle with this, but before throwing in the towel there are seven things you need to re-evaluate. Get more sleep If you’re not getting enough sleep, you’re going to struggle with that 6am alarm – or finding the energy to hit the weights after -
4 HIIT Workouts You'll Love
What better way to mix up your training than by adding a few HIIT sessions to your regime? HIIT, otherwise known as High Intensity Interval Training, is a type of cardio which is known for getting your heart racing and burning through fat. The best thing? HIIT workouts are so intense that they’re designed to be relatively short, so you -
Keeping Fit on Holiday
A holiday is to relax, isn’t it? Of course! But that doesn't mean that the progress you've spent months or perhaps even years making needs to suffer. Over-indulging and falling out of sync with your workout routine is bound to happen at some point, and so it should, but there's a way that you can plan your break so that -
A Guide to Suspension Training
Perhaps you’ve seen these black-strapped contraptions hoisted up at your gym, come across them when browsing fitness equipment online, or you vaguely recall hearing something about them a year or so ago when they started featuring on every list of fitness buzzwords in the Western world. Perhaps you took a look at these fairly simple looking fitness tools and thought -
Healthy Dinner Swaps
We’ve covered breakfast and lunch, now it’s time to talk about dinner. After a long and hectic day it can often be tempting to grab a time-saving, unhealthy option out of convenience, but with a few simple swaps you can transform your meal into one which holds far more nutritional value – and doesn’t leave you reaching for the biscuit